2015 Program
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13th
Location: Southside Commons, 3518 South Edmunds Street, Seattle, WA 98118
3:00-6:00pm – Bicycle Valentines & Sign-making Workshop
6:00-8:30pm – Registration, Welcome Event & Dinner
• Rain City Rock Camp for Girls
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14th
– Keynote Location (8:00am-11am) – Rainier Valley Cultural Center, 3515 S. Alaska Street, Seattle, WA 98118
– Workshops Location (11:30am-4:45pm) – Interagency Academy, 3528 S. Ferdinand St, Seattle WA. 98118
– Bike Works Location (Tours 5:00-6:00pm) – 3709 South Ferdinand Street, Seattle, WA 98118
– YBS “Out on the Town” (6:00-9:00pm) – Various locations in downtown Seattle
8:00 – 11:00am – Keynote Presentation & Breakfast *Bios
Includes introduction by Youth Bike, Bike Works, and Parsons The New School
*Keynote presentation begins at 9:00am sharp
• Mayor Ed Murray – Mayor of Seattle
• Shannon Galpin – Mountain2Mountain
• Elysa Walk – Giant Bicycle
• Jim & Keilan Sayer – Adventure Cycling
• Olatunji Oboi Reed – Slow Roll Chicago
• Jennie Reed – US Olympic Track Cyclist
• Adonia Lugo – League of American Bicyclists
• Brook Negussie – University of Washington, Cascade Bicycle Club
• Kahlil Brewer – Bike Works
11:00am – Youth Bike Summit Parade
• Led by the Chaotic Noise Marching Corps
11:30am – 12:45pm – Session I
• Youth Leadership A – Job Skills Training – Bike Works Room 2
• Youth Leadership B – Creating Opportunities for Youth Leadership – Neighborhood Bike Works Room 13
• Program Innovation – Centering on Youth: Sharing and Developing Youth Bicycle Curricula – Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Cascade Bicycle Club, Bike Works Seattle, & Recycle-A-Bicycle Room 15
• Advocacy Initiatives – UPRISE! Cycles of Change – Bikes Not Bombs Room 11
• Making Change – Bikenomics – Elly Blue & Joe Biel Room 12
• Storytelling – * Bik’innovation: How to Turn Your Love of Bikes Into a Career – Bike Works,REI, Giant Bicycle, Planet Bike, Haro Bicycle, Seattle Bike Blog, International High School at Union Square, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, and G & O Family Cyclery Cafeteria
• Fundraising – Fundraising 101 – ioby (In Our Back Yards) Room 5
• Create – Create: Street Infrastructure Design – Seattle Department of Transportation Gym
12:45 – 2:00pm – Lunch / Tabling / Activities
• YBS Screening Room Room 13
– Phoenix Bikes
– Cascade Bicycle Club
– Neighborhood Bike Works
• Metro Bike Rack Demo Outdoor Play Yard
• YBS Podcast & Radio Show Room 15
• Bike Rodeo Workshop Outdoor Play Yard
• Office Hours for Your Fundraising Campaign – ioby (In Our Back Yards) Room 5
• Bikes & Books Workshop – Transportation Alternatives & Seattle Public Library Room 12
2:00pm – 3:15pm – Session II
• Youth Leadership A – Youth Advocacy Initiatives: Transit Justice through Youth Organizing – Multnomah Youth Commission Room 2
• Youth Leadership B – How and Why to Bike Tour with Youth at Your Organization! – Bike Works Room 13
• Program Innovation – University Initiatives: Youth Bicycling & Gender and Youth development in Bike Organizations – Rutgers University & University of Minnesota Room 11
• Advocacy Initiatives –Bicycle Riding for Stress Reduction in High School Students – El Puente Academy for Peace & Justice, NYC Room 15
• Making Change – * You Tell Us: What does youth-centered bike advocacy look like? – League of American Bicyclists, California State University at Los Angeles, and Red, Bike & Green Cafeteria
• Storytelling – Mountain Biking: Promoting Conservation awareness in youth through mountain biking – Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance Library
• Create 1 – Bike. Write. Now. – Cascade Bicycle Club Room 5
• Create 2 – Create Your Dream Bike! – Taylor Sizemore, Inventor of “The Denny” Bicycle Gym
3:30pm – 4:45pm – Session III
• Youth Leadership A – Dynamic Youth Organize to Impact Neighborhood on Sustainable Transportation – Frogtown Crew Room 2
• Youth Leadership B – The Power of the Bicycle – Santa Barbara Middle School Room 13
• Program Innovation –The Power of Bicycle Travel – Adventure Cycling Room 1
• Advocacy Initiatives – * Getting What You Want: Advocate – Bicycle Transportation Alliance & Multnomah Youth Commission Cafeteria
• Making Change 1 – Everyone Can Ride: Empowering Individuals with Disabilities Through Cycling – PEAC Room 5
• Making Change 2 – The People’s Bikes – How bike share systems can work for everyone – Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Capital Bikeshare – TWU Local 100, Citibike, Pronto Cycle Share, Recycle-A-Bicycle, and Seattle Bike Blog Room 15
• Storytelling – Bicycle Stories – International High School at Union Square, NYC Room 12
• Fundraising – Earned Income Panel Discussion – Bike Works, Recycle-A-Bicycle, Neighborhood Bike Works, and Community Cycling Center Room 11
• Create – Sew, You Want to Make a Cycling Cap? – Bike Works Gym
4:45pm-6:00pm – Local Voices: Hear from Youth-based Shops & Programs Across the USA
• Tours of Bike Works – Bike Works
• Discussion Groups & Project Showcases:
– Youth Advocacy for Bicycle Equity – Bike It! Santa Ana Room 1
– Pedaling Opportunities – Bikes Not Bombs Room 2
– How Bikes Are Changing Detroit – Back Alley Bikes Room 5
– Gearing Up for Girls – Phoenix Bikes Room 11
– Cycle Academy – Ghisallo Foundation Room 13
– Trading Places: Piloting Youth & Staff Exchange within Community Bike Organizations – Neighborhood Bike Works & Phoenix Bikes Room 15
– Cheasty Trails and Bike Park: Seattle’s First Forested Mt. Bike Trails – Friends of Cheasty Greenspace Mt. View Room 12
6:00pm-9:00pm – Youth Bike Summit “Out on the Town”
• Tours of REI
• Timbuk2 Reception
• Sight seeing options
• Dinner options
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15th
Location: Interagency Academy
10:00am-2:00pm – Visioning Session & Brunch
*All workshops taking place in the cafeteria will be video recorded and available to view on our website
The 2014 Youth Bike Summit program can be seen HERE.
Keynote Bios:
Shannon Galpin – Mountain2Mountain
National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Shannon Galpin has been breaking barriers on two wheels for the past decade. As the founder of the non profit Mountain to Mountain, Shannon has been working in Afghanistan, with the first generation of women to ride bikes as part of the first national cycling team. She is producing a film about these courageous women and her memoir Mountain to Mountain was published last year. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Outside Magazine, BBC World, and hundreds more news outlets.
Elysa Walk – Giant Bicycle
Elysa Walk joined the bicycle industry in 2004 at Giant Bicycle, Inc., and took full responsibility for Giant USA as General Manager in 2007. Prior to that, she worked in the software industry as an Operations Manager, running the operations of a fast growing telecommunications management software company for 10 years. Elysa’s education includes earning a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from University of Southern California and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
As General Manager of Giant Bicycle, Inc., Elysa is in charge of Giant’s U.S. business, including sales, operations, product development and marketing. She is the highest ranking female in the bike industry, and serves on the Boards of People for Bikes, the Outdoor Industry Women’s Coalition, and the Advisory Board of Women Bike.
Jim & Keilan Sayer – Adventure Cycling
Jim Sayer is Executive Director of Adventure Cycling Association, the largest cycling membership group in North America. Jim has worked in politics and for a number of non-profits. He has been a director of Greenbelt Alliance in San Francisco and the Sierra Business Council, and has also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and in the U.S. Senate. He’s served on a number of boards, but two of his favorites have been Amnesty International USA and America Bikes.
Keilan Sayer is a junior and an honor student at Hellgate High School in Missoula, Montana. She was born in San Francisco, California and lived there and near Lake Tahoe before moving to Montana in 2005. Besides bike travel, she has been involved in varsity cross country, roller derby, singing, and playing guitar and bass.
Olatunji Oboi Reed – Slow Roll Chicago
Oboi is the Co-Founder & President of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement, working to build a diverse and equitable bicycle culture in Chicago. An active cyclist for over ten years, Oboi rides at the intersection of community, advocacy, economics, health, and technology. With an extensive background in both nonprofit management as well as corporate social responsibility, he is most proud of his work to create a diverse coalition of people, organizations and businesses all working together to achieve equal bicycle usage across the the City of Chicago with respect race, income, and geography. Oboi is an African-Brazilian by way of cultural adoption, a proud son of the Quilombo do Remanso, and now they call him “O Bahia”. He is studying the health economics of Candomble traditional healing in the African-Brazilian population of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Beleza…
Jennie Reed – US Olympic Track Cyclist
Jennie is an Olympic Silver Medalist, 3x Olymipian, and World Champion Track Cyclist. She was introduced to track cycling in Redmond, WA at the Marymoor Velodrome by her father at the age of 16. She participated in her first Junior National Championships that same year and won both the Match Sprint and 2K Pursuit titles. She went on to compete in the 2K Pursuit the following two years, winning the title again in 1995 and finishing 2nd in 1996. She also competed at the Junior World Championships in both 1995 and 1996 in the 2K Pursuit.
Adonia Lugo – League of American Bicyclists
Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D., is the Equity Initiative Manager at the League of American Bicyclists. She has worked since 2008 to bring cross-cultural understanding into bicycle advocacy, planning, and research. Adonia received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, and in her dissertation, “Body-
City-Machines: Human Infrastructure for Bicycling in Los Angeles,” she found that social networks and cultural norms shape how we use streets. On her blog,urbanadonia.com, she argues that bicycling should lead the way in equitable and sustainable urban change.
Brook Negussie – University of Washington, Cascade Bicycle Club
Brook Negussie was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is currently attending the University of Washington, where he plans to pursue a degree in computer engineering. He came to the United States with his mother and older sister when he was nine years old. Starting in elementary school, Brook began participating in clubs and that strengthened his leadership skills which led to becoming the President of Africa United Club for two years in high school. Brook helped to fund a middle school library in Ghana and also helped to provide funding to help people in Africa get access to clean water. As a participant of the student government, Brook listened to his peers’ concerns and made changes to improve their school. He has also traveled to Colombia to volunteer in the communities by cleaning up the parks, repainting the murals in impoverished neighborhoods to brighten up the community, as well as repainting the libraries, tables, and shelves at a local school. While in high school, Brook was also a part of the National Honor Society, played tennis for Tyee (my high School team) for four years, was a participant of the Major Taylor Bike Club, and graduated in the top 10% of his class. He has won two student of the year awards and is a three-time most inspirational student award-winner.
Kahlil Brewer – Bike Works
Kahlil Brewer was born and raised in St Louis, MO and moved to Seattle in the fall of 2013. He is interested in computers, construction, and just about anything hands-on. Kahlil joined Bike Works through the Job Skills Training program, where he was given a chance to work with his hands and begin to look at the bigger picture of what it means to join the work force. Since then, Kahlil has been working in the BikeMobile and feels more prepared to find work.